Kayly Ober

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 693 citations indexed

About

Kayly Ober is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kayly Ober has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 693 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 1 paper in Political Science and International Relations and 1 paper in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Kayly Ober's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (8 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (3 papers). Kayly Ober is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (8 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (3 papers). Kayly Ober collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Kayly Ober's co-authors include Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Brent McCusker, Jonas Bergmann, Bryan Jones, Alex de Sherbinin, Susana B. Adamo, Amelia Midgley, Viviane Clément, Jacob Schewe and Patrick Sakdapolrak and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Kayly Ober

8 papers receiving 621 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Groundswell

2018 330 citations Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Alex de Sherbinin et al. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks profile →
Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

2018 245 citations Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Alex de Sherbinin et al. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kayly Ober Germany	6	515	80	71	60	43	9	693
Kanta Kumari Rigaud United States	6	539 1.0×	109 1.4×	76 1.1×	72 1.2×	42 1.0×	15	747
Jonas Bergmann Germany	7	593 1.2×	88 1.1×	94 1.3×	66 1.1×	41 1.0×	12	787
Amelia Midgley United Kingdom	4	420 0.8×	85 1.1×	54 0.8×	65 1.1×	34 0.8×	9	641
Viviane Clément United States	7	553 1.1×	127 1.6×	72 1.0×	69 1.1×	45 1.0×	8	862
Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra United States	6	578 1.1×	59 0.7×	96 1.4×	56 0.9×	53 1.2×	8	688
Olivia Dun Australia	15	619 1.2×	134 1.7×	137 1.9×	38 0.6×	32 0.7×	35	820
Tamer Afifi Germany	12	590 1.1×	71 0.9×	76 1.1×	36 0.6×	25 0.6×	20	753
Christiane Fröhlich Germany	14	826 1.6×	131 1.6×	76 1.1×	61 1.0×	36 0.8×	28	1.0k
Mo Hamza Sweden	10	346 0.7×	122 1.5×	44 0.6×	25 0.4×	16 0.4×	37	582
Benjamin Schraven Germany	7	433 0.8×	84 1.1×	61 0.9×	35 0.6×	30 0.7×	23	776

Countries citing papers authored by Kayly Ober

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kayly Ober

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kayly Ober

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kayly Ober. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kayly Ober based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kayly Ober. Kayly Ober is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

1.

Ober, Kayly, et al.. (2025). Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate. Cambridge University Press eBooks.

2.

Sakdapolrak, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(3). e2206185120–e2206185120. 16 indexed citations

3.

Ober, Kayly, et al.. (2024). Conflict mitigation as a means of climate change adaptation: Lessons for policy and development practice. 2(2). 277–290. 2 indexed citations

4.

Ober, Kayly. (2019). The Links between Climate Change, Disasters, Migration, and Social Resilience in Asia: A Literature Review. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

5.

Ober, Kayly & Patrick Sakdapolrak. (2019). Whose climate change adaptation ‘barriers’? Exploring the coloniality of climate change adaptation policy assemblages in Thailand and beyond. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 41(1). 86–104. 11 indexed citations

6.

Rigaud, Kanta Kumari, Alex de Sherbinin, Bryan Jones, et al.. (2018). Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 245 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Rigaud, Kanta Kumari, Alex de Sherbinin, Bryan Jones, et al.. (2018). Groundswell. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Ober, Kayly & Patrick Sakdapolrak. (2017). How do social practices shape policy? Analysing the field of ‘migration as adaptation’ with Bourdieu's ‘Theory of Practice’. Geographical Journal. 183(4). 359–369. 27 indexed citations

9.

Sakdapolrak, Patrick, et al.. (2016). Migration in a changing climate. Towards a translocal social resilience approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 147(2). 81–94. 60 indexed citations

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